2016-17 SP Game Used Hockey Cards

I’m also going to disagree with the negativity towards e-pack. If you took all of the cards shops in the US and Canada and put them on a map like the wireless providers do with their coverage areas, you’d probably find HUGE areas where a collector couldn’t simply walk into a shop and make a purchase so they’re left to order online from someplace or go to e-pack. Add to the fact that unless you’re in a hockey market (think Toronto/Montreal) your local card shop isn’t going to be getting a huge shipment of any of the higher end products. That was my case, since I’m friends with my shop owner I was fortunate to be able to get one of the two cases my shop had delivered. I also purchased two cases from e-pack and to be truthful, my e-pack cases yielded more value than the case I got locally. Just my .02 worth, feel free to disagree.

This product is a pure disaster. The checklist is huge and watered down by a gazillion of parallels, rookie scrubs, jersey cards etc.
It’s so obvious that they configure these products for group breakers only now. The odds to get something nice are completely insane!
I don’t see the appeal to open a Box (it’s actually just a pack) for e. g. a sticker Rookie Autograph of Sergei Tolchinsky, a Jersey card of Nino Niederreiter another sticker Autograph of Jake Allen and an All-Star Banner by Evgeny Kusnetzov plus two Base Cards.
Not great for a personal break? Well this is what you get in 8 out of 10 boxes from SP Game Used.

The Upper Deck products suffer a huge overproduction disguised by many numbered parallels and featuring almost every player who once were an NHL jersey when called up. They re-use every single tiny piece out of there NHL Replicas to make hundreds of thousands of these worthless cards and put a number on it. I can only recommend to stay away.

Nevertheless I’ll completely disagree with the negativity in regards to e-pack. While it’s true they hold 10-30% of the prints back (totally random), you get the same terrible cards on e-pack like you would get when purchasing physical cards.

Trey, you know what kind of luck I have…I bought 8 boxes…First pack I open, I get a Gretzky auto 99/99 from the base set…along with the COA ..both in a plastic sleeve…I’ll email you the pic’s…The gretzky went on ebay and sold…

Bob C

In any other year I would rate this a 5 hands down. What is stopping that rating? Simple, it is UD’s choice to release more and more products on ePack.

Just like UD1, UD2, OPC Platinum, SPx and now SPGU is going to be released on ePack this year. Sorry…a big booooooooo to UD and the finger that you are giving to the hobby shops.

You see the trend right? Eventually every product will be released on ePack, it’s just a matter of time. I feel bad for the hobby shops, just not fair at all.

I almost bought a box or two and thought I’d check out some case breaks first. I’m so glad I did because once again UD has screwed the collector. Lowering the price point and giving us 6 cards eh? They must think people are idiots and maybe they are because I’m not spending $115 Can on a bunch of worthless jersey and numbered cards. Many if the boxes I saw opened maybe had $20-30 in value and only a few rare ones had great cards in them. I’m so tired of UD and after finishing the series 2 set I’m done. I’ll finish previous years’ sets and get the cards I want on eBay. No new product! Only breakers and rich old men have $ to throw around on UD products. Thanks UD for ruining the hobby.

Much nicer than last year. Opened 6 boxes with some nice patches and banner cards. Also got the signed jersey card for rookie Jimmy Vesey. Card came in a separate sleeve and also included a certificate of authenticity

Just remarking on Authentic Rookies content as those are the chase cards:

1. St. Louis has no Authentic Rookies to chase, the only team to not have one.

2. Colorado has one Authentic Rookies (Bigras) and his jersey is to 3 so good luck there, at least if you hit Bigras, it’s worth beaucoup bucks to an Avalanche collector. Bigras has the lowest jersey number in the AR list.

3. Other teams with only one AR: Edmonton, LA, Nashville, Tampa Bay, and Washington but keep in mind, they can have a higher jersey number so may have better chance of hitting compared to other teams with 2-3 rookies.

4. Minnesota has two rookies (Reilly and Ek) with jersey numbers 4 and 14.

5. Philadelphia has three rookies (Provorov, Konecny, Lyubimov), all fairly low numbered at 9, 11, and 13.

6. On the flip side, Toronto must be dressing a team full of rookies as all the jersey numbers added up to 105,683 (give or take).

IMO, other than Toronto, teams worth a look into are Arizona, Columbus, Philadelphia, and Winnipeg.

As for Canucks fans, Stetcher (#51) and Tryamkin (#88) have Authentic Rookies but not Demko.

Watching a couple of cases opened, it seems like the same old release, bunch of jersey cards and an auto or two.

Haven’t seen Frameworks in person although the breakers were impressed.

Have no idea why you would include Banner Year, are we going the way of Panini and adding whatever garbage the players touched…are we going to see event used chairs next?

I dont collect hockey all that often. Decided to buy my first ever hobby box and this is the product I landed on thanks to the price point. Thought the inserts were cool. Got a bergeron banner year finals 2013 banner card. And the big hit was an auston matthews draft day marks auto /10. Solid day for my first ever hockey purchase

You’re right Scott, but group breakers are not the only people involved in the hobby business. And I’m not sure that Group Breakers are such a massive portion of the clients. Anyhow, to answer your question, a huge checklist means amongst other positive things at least two negative setbacks:
1. A diluted value of the players and of the monetary value per se, because at a certain point, if you have a billion sets and subsets you can’t only put Toews, Ovi and Crosby in there. Look at the rookie checklist. There are names there you’ll never see again in no other collection. Also, who cares about the billion All Star sets and subsets?
2. And most of all, it means redundancy. In this specific case there are many sets with jersey: base materials, all star fabrics, stadium series fabrics, stadium series blends, banners, ink sweaters. And almost all these sets have parallels and subsets. I know it’s Game Used, but still. That means that your case will be filled with worthless jersey cards.

Anyhow, there are positive points to a big checklist, but I think people can dislike a collection like this and personally also prefer a smaller checklist. They could have made for example a smaller product dedicated to the NHL All Star Game, and put all these cards in there, but I’m pretty sure they know people will not purchase that.

Why would a long checklist be a complaint? The simple short checklists are one of the biggest knocks that alot of the recent upper deck hit products have received because a massive portion of the market for hit products are group breakers…and when group breakers buy a team for a case of a hit product they want lots of possible cards to be possible for their team…long checklists are great for that!!

Longest checklist in history – seriously, scrolling through that thing requires a map……
6 cards per pack / 60 cards per case
…..good luck with that…..

Look at the size of the checklist!!!

JUNK save your money no auto only damaged relics

Also, the card design is odd. What is with Grass on the 1/1 base?

Just zero value in this even at the new price point. So many worthless single color jersey cards

Is this some kind of joke? Why does comments like this with such complete misinformation are accepted? This man doesn’t have a clue what he’s talking about. DELETE!

Card player selection decent.After reading that there are (E PACKS ) just put in caps to stand out I staying away from case wax breaks. Upper Deck always keeps a lot of the high end cards for its epack web site so no use buying wax boxes or into case and wasting good money down the drain

I’ve been really looking forward to SP Game Used. The 14/15 cards were some of my favorites but last year’s stuff…the less said the better! Seems like a lot of cool stuff this year and with 6 cards in a pack and a lower price I’m excited. Having said that, UD has let me down before so I guess I am cautiously optimistic.

Last year SP Game Used was a tremendous disaster. The 4 hits announced can prove to be 4 huge flops. In 2 cases last year, the 3 additional Memorabilia cards were white jersey, after white jersey, after white jersey of insignificant players. Let’s hope this year things will be better. They added a card which is not bad, but they still kept the one billion All Star Game sets and Manufactured patches that generally nobody is interested in. The Banner set seems a good idea, as well as the 2016 Winter Classic Material Net Cord Shield Logo. Also hitting a Laine or Matthews will pay a lot, since their Jersey Number are 28 respectively 34, so a reduced number of Rookie cards.

Always love SPGU. Being a Minnesota Wild fan I love the fact that we’re finally getting some love and not have a crap checklist that we normally do.

Seems to be a lack of Vladimir Tarasenko aside from the few inserts. No base card or parallels for him at all. That’s unfortunate